Ama Gozan is a jikaku (statues of a Buddhist temple) of the Rinzai sect introduced to nunnery temples, and modeled after the Gozan system (the selection system of temples of the five highest ranks) in the Muromachi period. 尼五山(あまござん)とは、室町時代に五山の制に倣って尼寺に導入された臨済宗の寺格。 |